In 1997 Photek burst onto the drum n bass scene with his intelligent, futuristic jazz-influenced album Modus Operandi. While he’s released several albums since then, none have had the impact of his first couple. He’s got a new release planned for 2011, which judging by a teaser released through xlr8r.com could be set to have a similar impact on the dubstep genre.

I have been planning to get this out for a while. I played a set in the ambient zone at Dunedin’s mid-winter Solstice party. Planned to record it that night & upload it shortly afterwards, but there was some pre-set chaos & in the fray I forgot to turn record on. I’ve had a couple of goes at re-recording the mix since then, but have had little time to get it sorted out. Anyway I’m about to abandon my efforts, but just before I do, here are the fragments that I’ve pulled together so far. Enjoy…

I normally try to link to all of the albums used in my mixes, but at this stage don’t have the time sorry. If you really like any of the tracks, you can probably still find most of them with a few searches. Good luck on the hunt. Reply to this post if you really can’t find anything & I’ll see if I can track it down.

Keinzweiter (Tobias Lorsbach) has been releasing albums since 2001. He’s very well known for his intelligent, funky, glitchy micro-house and minimal techno, also releasing tunes as Elco Park (with Maximilian Wendling), Superlauncher, Antiga Prime, The Desktop Discoballs, The Postman (not to be confused with another artist with a similar name), & T Byron.

It’s now day 2 of free music week, and my artist of the day is Professor Kliq.

Professor Kliq came to my attention through the Catching the Waves music blog, one of my favorite sources of quality creative commons music, and I was immediately hooked. Professor Kliq has got the formula for Chemical Brothers-style big-beat nailed. Huge rolling electro-bass tracks to get the party-core jacking.

It’s the first day of free music week! Each day, music bloggers around the world will identify an artist who they particularly rate, and the friendly folks at musikpiraten e.v. will aggragate the information together. It’s an attempt to make the best of creative commons music accessible, which is a pretty worthy aim I think, so I’m going to attempt to participate.

My artist for the day is Dublicator.

Dublicator is the name that Tamás Olejnik uses for his dub & dub-techno releases. He first came to my attention with the excellent Deep Roots EP, released through the Deep in Dub netlabel.

I next came across Chord Centre, another DID release, which has got to be my all-time favorite dub-techno album. Just great smooth, deep quality dub techno. I don’t have a particular favourite, it’s all pretty good.

In undertaking this proto-review, I’ve realised that this is really just scratching the surface of this fantastic artist. He has a number of releases running right back to 2006, and has continued onwards to 2010 (details here). I’ll certainly have to continue my investigations into his past a bit once my work calms down a little. 🙂

On another note, I see with great sadness that with his latest release Tamas has gone to the darkside, and is now releasing his music out of the creative commons realm. I for one am hoping he returns to his deep roots.

Following on from my last post, netlabel drum n’ bass & dubstep is still fairly rare, but some good stuff has been coming out particularly over the last year. Here are my top picks as of 4 December, 2009.